And here is what each team is returning from last year in terms of minutes, points, rebounds, assists, and steals - plus a weighted average (double weight for points, minutes, and rebounds, 1.5 weight for assists):

Note: Boston U gets back two solid reserves in SG Cheddi Mosely and forward Destin Barnes. Both were suspended for most of the season last year. Lehigh and American each pick up two transfers who are eligible this year.

Coming next - a compilation of players lost due to transfer or graduation.

AMERICAN
• Delante Jones 6-5 soph SF – to Seattle; was PL ROY in 2015-16; was worse as soph.
• Lonnie Rivera 6-6 soph PF – transferred to Wagner; started a number of PL games after Tolksdorf was hurt.
• Alex Paquin 6-0 jr CG – to McGill (Canada) as grad transfer.
• Andrija Matic 6-10 soph Center – going to Europe ; was a regular in rotation as a freshman, rarely played as soph.

ARMY
• None known at this point. But with 10 freshmen and 10 sophomores on the 2016-17 roster, some churn is inevitable.

BOSTON
• None known.

COLGATE
• Dave Krmpotich 6-7 soph PF – left team during season last year but appears to still be a Colgate student.

LEHIGH
• Brandon Alston 6-5 junior wing - transferred to Georgia Tech with two years of eligibility left. Alston was LU’s 6th man for much of the season and then became a key starter for final ten games. Played 33 minutes in championship game.
• Matt Holba 6-7 redshirt soph SF/PF - to Indiana Fort Wayne. Was a starter until mid-January, and averaged about 20 mpg.

LOYOLA
• Dylan Gollihar 7-0 frosh center - to Lees-McRae. Gollihar was a project and missed the entire season due to injury.
• Austin Harriott 6-4 frosh wing - to Bloomsburg. Rarely played as a freshman.

NAVY
• James Butler 6-8 frosh PF - to Drexel. Butler left the Navy team when PL play started.

First of all, thank you Bison137 for compiling and posting this. Its enriching to read and passes the summer faster too. Decidedly good news for Bucknell as their 15-3 team is returning a lot of the stuff that made them winners last year, but Lafayette may be groaning from the abundance of returning production of their 5-13 team! And other teams could be getting great talent in and Army is always a wildcard team. Thats how I see it. Bucknell is in the catbird seat. My question is even with a wider gap between the Bison and the others than last year, can they improve on 15-3 and 26-9? On paper and on court they are a great team, but how good? Nana could be downing the mac and cheese and getting distracted by video games and girls, Bruce Moore could be a book-reading nerd we just don't know. But how are they going to improve on the impressive W column from last year?

Edited by Paulie777 on 07-20-17 08:11 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.

Note that Boykins missed virtually the entire season due to a shoulder injury and Tolksdorf missed all PL games due to a knee injury. Also Harries missed about half the PL games due to injury. And Mbargorba was suspended for the majority of the season.

More info. Here are all the players being added to rosters. I have included transfers who sat out last year and are now eligible to play, plus a couple of players who missed the entire year to injury. (Also listed in italics are the Army/Navy players who appear to be heading for a redshirt year at their prep schools, although it is sometimes hard to tell.)

Also every reported offer for each recruit is shown, taken largely from Verbal Commits but also from their twitter accounts. For some additional perspective, I have listed each player's commitment date. That is relevant because players who committed early likely would have received more and possibly better offers. Those who committed before July 1st (prior to Summer AAU) might be considered very early and probably would have received more/higher offers. Those who committed by the end of August are somewhat early and might well have improved the offer list. Those who committed later in the Fall and in the Spring often were not going to upgrade the offer list.

As a guess, I would say the team with the top quality freshmen is Boston U, followed by Bucknell and Lehigh. Tops in terms of quantity of legitimate prospects are Lehigh, Holy Cross, and American.

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Legend:

Fr = normal incoming freshman.
RFr = Service Academy player who "redshirted" at their prep school last year.
Juco = junior college transfer who is eligible to play this year.
Tran = transfer who sat out last year.
INJ = player who did not play at all last year due to injury.
Prep = Service Academy player who is being "redshirted" at their prep school this year.

Fr = normal incoming freshman.
RFr = Service Academy player who "redshirted" at their prep school last year.
Juco = junior college transfer who is eligible to play this year.
Tran = transfer who sat out last year.
INJ = player who did not play at all last year due to injury.
Prep = Service Academy player who is being "redshirted" at their prep school this year.

Not sure if you missed it or didn't list him because he verbally committed after the BU roster came out but Boston University has one more recent commitment, though not as highly touted for the 2017 class in Andrew Petcash.

Not sure if you missed it or didn't list him because he verbally committed after the BU roster came out but Boston University has one more recent commitment, though not as highly touted for the 2017 class in Andrew Petcash.

Not sure if you missed it or didn't list him because he verbally committed after the BU roster came out but Boston University has one more recent commitment, though not as highly touted for the 2017 class in Andrew Petcash.

Definitely didn't miss him - since I was the one who posted his commitment on your board. Just forgot to add him, as my spreadsheet was completed a week ago (although only posted today).

Any news on which Boston U scholarship player has left - or if that account in the Petcash article was incorrect?

The belief on the BU board was the player is Blaise Mbargorba who was granted an extra year of eligibility due to his injury at SMU apparently. He had been hanging out with the Coach Jones and some other team members this summer in photos. This also makes sense as to why BU hadn't recruited a 13th player for a scholarship until late this summer.

How might this change in transfer status affect Bucknell? I think it is more fair for players but not sure how GPA angle will work given all of the suspected and known Tom-foolery with athletes courses and grades. And can coaches hold players "hostage" as some have done in the past?

I won't be surprised if it happens - and I won't be at all surprised if it is CRAZY. On the one side, it might help a couple of the PL teams that are OK with bringing in transfers - Lehigh, American, Colgate, and maybe Boston U. But on the other hand, Lehigh and American have also had multiple players transfer out. That's good for a program if it's the underperformers who depart - but not good if it is rotation players.

Apparently, somebody is making a movie about HC's 1954 championship team called Purple Reign. The HC board is talking about it. Personally, I think that the trailer is very interesting. BTW, I never knew that HC is the smallest school to ever win a hoops championship.